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What’s beyond the Top 60 in Canada?
Canada’s investment landscape is often defined by the S&P/TSX 60, the benchmark that comprises the nation’s largest companies. These larger-cap companies—predominantly Financials and Energy firms—tend to lead headlines for portfolio allocations. Yet beneath the top tier of widely recognized names exists a dynamic segment that focuses on emerging leadership, innovation and diversification in Canada’s public…
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Canada’s Materials Sector Strikes Gold
Canadian equity markets have a reputation for their sector concentration and cyclical swings, often reflecting the country’s deep ties to commodities and resource-driven growth. Over the past decade, sector performance has rotated dramatically, with Energy, Materials and Information Technology each taking their turn at the top. This constant reshuffling has reinforced the importance of diversification,…
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An Index Approach to Fossil Fuel Reserves Divestment: Spotlight on the New S&P/TSX Composite Fossil Fuel Reserves Free Index
S&P Dow Jones Indices (S&P DJI) has been calculating indices designed to exclude companies with fossil fuel reserves since December 2011, when the S&P Global 1200 Fossil Fuel Reserves Free Index was launched. This index, along with its sub-indices such as the S&P 500® Fossil Fuel Reserves Free Index, measure the performance of companies in…
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Equal Weight Indexing in Canadian Equities
The S&P 500 Equal Weight Index has exhibited notable long-term outperformance compared to the market-cap-weighted S&P 500—a phenomenon that has been researched over the years. Unlike the headline S&P 500, where larger companies exert a greater influence, the S&P 500 Equal Weight Index assigns the same weight to each of its constituents, regardless of their…
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2023 Has Already Been Trepidatious
A sizzling start for Canadian equities in 2023 found itself fizzling as March began. Despite having a return of as much as 7% in late January/early February, through March 17, 2023, the S&P/TSX Composite Index was up 0.7% YTD. In line with historical trends, the S&P/TSX Composite Low Volatility Index underperformed, declining 0.1%. Volatility rose…
SPIVA Canada Scorecard 2022: Country, Currency and Concentration Contexts
Since 2004, our SPIVA® Canada Scorecards have shown that a majority of actively managed Canadian equity funds typically underperform the S&P/TSX Composite Index. However, according to the recently published SPIVA Canada Year-End 2022 Scorecard, the annual underperformance rate dropped to the best result we have seen since 2015: just 52% of Canadian Equity managers lagged…
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A Lackluster 2022 for Canadian Equities
With less than two weeks remaining in 2022, the S&P/TSX Composite Index is down 5.7% YTD (a relatively mild decline compared to the S&P 500®’s 17.9% drop). The S&P/TSX Composite Low Volatility Index has underperformed, which is unusual for a down year, falling by 9.6% YTD. Volatility continued its uptrend since the last rebalance, rising…
Leadership of Canadian Value Indices
Introduction How have value- and growth-oriented strategies performed in the Canadian equity market in recent years, especially given the recent resurgence in value-oriented companies? Value investing is recognized as a well-known strategy that seeks to benefit from strength in fundamental characteristics of securities that might not be completely reflected in market prices, and it typically…
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This Time It Was Easy: SPIVA Canada
Each time SPIVA® results are released, we are naturally asked to explain why a certain portion of active managers underperformed in any given fund category. Sometimes, management strategies and market moves defy simple explanations, but at other times an explanation can be plain as day. For actively managed equity funds in Canada, a recent turn…
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Equity Woes Continue
Canadian equities continued their decline, losing another 8.76% (through September 15, 2022) since the last rebalance of the S&P/TSX Low Volatility Index on June 17. Characteristically for a falling market, Low Volatility outperformed (by 13 basis points), declining 8.63%. As it had done in June, volatility again increased for every sector of the S&P/TSX Composite…
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